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Station Island QUOTES

Station Island QUOTES

1 " The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here. "

― Seamus Heaney , Station Island

2 " To work, her dumb lunge says,
is to move a certain mass
...through a certain distance,
is to pull your weight and feel
exact and equal to it.
Feel dragged upon. And buoyant. "

― Seamus Heaney , Station Island

3 " Then I thought of the tribe whose dances never fail / For they keep dancing till they sight the deer. "

― Seamus Heaney , Station Island

4 " You lose more of yourself than you redeem
doing the decent thing. Keep at a tangent
When they make the circle wide, it's time to swim
Out on your own and fill the element
with signatures on your own frequency. "

― Seamus Heaney , Station Island